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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his fat...more

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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awo...more

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...more

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Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to rig...more

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.